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I'm not criticizing their body condition. Mine are fat as pigs, but there's wild rye, oats, vetch, clover, brome and filaree up to their chests right now. I figure the reserves help them get through the rest of the season, after it dries up and loses its nutrition. They'd make it through the...

Kathie, your cattle look content and well cared for. Very nice :D

Not having first hand experience with him, it's the +7 HPG that bothers me. The average for proven and opportunity sires is +10 isn't it? I've definitely considered him but have hesitated because of that.

Be careful with shorthorns. I love them, but the fact that they're so popular as show cattle has led to a lot of bad breeding choices and fad chasing. It's harder to find the productive easy doing type, and there are lots of others with high energy needs, high bw's and big shoulders. The...

I think there are other places, including Australia, where showing is done differently and works more hand in hand with production goals. I'd love to see part of the scoring come from carcass grading after slaughter as well as slick shearing or at least a shorter shear that provides a more...

You could absolutely take better photos of them. The first has a nice heart girth and some spring of rib, but he looks very lacking in the rear end department and if it's true it's not forgivable. The second, if you couldn't see the hair from his sheath hanging down, looks like a cow. Not very...

Our breeds are shorthorns and red angus, but the show world has really effed up the shorthorns - here anyway. Red angus remains more commercial, which is probably what keeps them functional and productive. That, and a more stringent breed association. I've noticed more interest in RA by the show...

Welcome back and Happy New Year! Wow, another baby boy, congratulations :tiphat: Looking forward to your photos and hearing about your work and cattle in Uruguay.

I have a couple of questions that apply to this tank or others. When not being used for temporary storage, it would be dry. So, does that mean it's okay for a tank to alternate between being filled and going dry? I read in a different thread that a tank shouldn't be allowed to go dry or it could...

This thread caught my eye b/c we just AI'd a heifer to World Class. Don't know if she stuck yet, but good to hear the positive reports on his other offspring.

Bryan, I haven't seen any of your cattle that I haven't loved. Personally I'd prefer a heifer with less extra flesh, but you have good paying customers telling to you different and I certainly understand wanting to please them.

She looks like a nice heifer, but maybe lacking some muscle especially in the hindquarters. Standing downhill with her rear leg forward certainly doesn't help. Here's a red baldy we would have kept if she had a little more rear muscle and eye pigment. Not quite as furry yet. One thing I have...

It's hard to tell how he'll grow out at this point but he's a nice looking calf, fancy and has a nice butt. I think it's generally not recommended to use a crossbred bull because of potential for inconsistency in the calves and loss of hybrid vigor if you also use crossbred cows. And as...

Great job on that pull, I agree that it's so exciting when it starts and a big relief when it's over.

First, thank you Doc, Knersie, Dun and everyone of you who goes out of your way to provide thoughtful feedback to those of us who ask for it. VCC, you are right. At first I was looking at photos that were partially cut off and then I went to the ones on another site but I think some of them...

Our neighbor has a herd of Brahmans. They don't let me get too close, but they're very beautiful and they make the strangest sounds. They're like cattle from another planet.

I've never had dairy beef before, but this is exactly how we finish our own cattle now. We used to do 45 days, but now we only do 30. Our steer from this year had some grass fat to start with and I'm sure that helped. I know this isn't the same as full grain finishing, but that's not what we're...

We've had pretty good luck weaning by the moon. First time we tried it was the most dramatic in terms of how absolutely quiet they were. We also make sure to put the weaned calves in the strongest pasture, if not at least one will find a weak spot to crawl through.

I agree with culling any from lines with bad udders and feet. I suppose there's a chance of breeding it out, but by the time you find out you've already invested years. I do love roans, but I wouldn't keep her. She was huge at birth and will grow to be an inefficient cow. I'm in a similar...

I look at a bull like that and at first I only see a long, deep, good looking animal. It's very instructional to read a thorough assessment like Knersie's.